Pike eat pike

It's a well-known fact that pike occasionally eat themselves too. Well, I mean other pike. Maybe just because they're hungry, but it could also be that their territorial instinct tells them to do so. Either way, it's not a bad idea to have a more or less pikish pattern in your fly box, I mean flure box.

Now pike fishermen with 'conventional' tackle just take a piece of painted wood that actually looks like a pike, but in our elite fellowship of the fly, a vice and tying thread somehow really have to be part of the construction process.

So here's a rather impressionistic approach using only the traditional pike-streamer materials bucktail, zonker strips, feathers and some flash (you all know the eyes are just for the pictures....).






And here's the model:



O.k., o.k., I can almost hear you saying this pattern better be fished with some speed.....